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Antigone et Creon (GBR-N°16),
2008
by CY Pavel
Painting : oil 133.5 x 100.5 x 3.5 cm 52.6 x 39.6 x 1.4 inch
€9,000
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Painting: oil
133.5 x 100.5 x 3.5 cm 52.6 x 39.6 x 1.4 inch Height x Width x Depth
Beige wood frame with museum glass
133.5 x 100.5 x 3.8 cm 52.6 x 39.6 x 1.5 inch
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Artwork location: France
"The artwork 'Antigone presents a contemporary interpretation of Greek mythology. On a light background, colorful figures unfold, capturing the essence of this legendary story. The composition of the artwork is fragmented, giving an impression of dynamism and of movement. Creon's head and Antigone's figure are brought to the fore, emphasizing their importance in the narrative. The impulsive, wild brushstrokes add an expressive dimension to the work, while the accentuated lines create visual tension .This contemporary depiction of the Greek tragedy 'Antigone and Creon highlights the persistence and relevance of these ancient stories in our modern society. The artist uses bright colors to bring mythical characters to life, placing them in a contemporary context. This work is notable for its bold brushstrokes, which add a raw energy to the composition. The aggressive lines and expressive shapes create visual tension and reflect the intensity of emotions and conflicts present in the tragedy of Antigone and Creon. This contemporary interpretation of Greek mythology offers a dynamic reflection on the timeless themes of loyalty, power and justice, while exploring the possibilities of contemporary art through bold aesthetic choices.
Copal oil on linen canvas under glass mounted on canvas frame.
Provisional wood-coloured frame.
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Copal oil on linen canvas under glass mounted on canvas frame.
Provisional wood-coloured frame.
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Visual artist, graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Associate of Plastic Arts. Born in 1956 in Paris. He began his journey in the context of Free Figuration, but then felt close to Les Nouveaux Fauves de Berlin and exhibited neo-expressionist painting which, while remaining figural, moved away from narrative figuration. The first Couples (or Duos) establish a dialectical staging within the painting, where masculine and feminine tensions, dialogue and confrontation, masks and figures, the reversibilities of desire are played out.
At the same time, his experience as a university teacher enriched him with decisive insights into contemporary plastic expression and new media; in return, he better understood the specificities of “mediumpeinture". Confronted in the Grands Couples with the test of a figuration which constructs itself, self-destructs, covers itself, because it is always "too painted" in his eyes, still too narrative, he opened, in 1993, the way to the Palimpsests which will be at the heart of the artist's future approach. A long-term work on the “disappearance" of painting, the threat of its ruin, its memory; and where the phenomenological character of the pictorial fabric is manifested, its fragility, as much as its paradoxical durability. Carried by an even more radical process, this problem will then be replayed in the Série des Brûlées; these are remnants of canvases painted with resinous oil and preserved under glass, as if preserved for a time from the erosion which they are already carrying. They revoke the status of images and become a sort of pictorial and pathetic “skin", but which continues to represent us again.
In 2009 a major retrospective at the Les Esselières Congress Space in Villejuif demonstrated this approach. It was a decisive experience for questioning the intrinsic nature of painting, the painting object and their relationship to the figured body. To this day, the Palimpsests continue the open path and are revealed to the public as a counterpoint to the different series (Duets, Solos, Curiosities, Survivances, Invisibles...). Building on this experience, the artist claims a figuration nourished by the "catastrophes" she has experienced - as if outside of time - even archaic, always more anchored in the physical substrate of the painting and which attests, ultimately, to a return to the table is always possible. The figuration becomes one with the material and structures the pictorial film, where the haptic dimension is inseparable from the image and the sign.
"The visual event of the painting only occurs from this tear which separates before us what is represented as remembered, and everything which presents itself as oblivion." Georges Didi-Huberman, in Front of the Image
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